The popular tourist town of Helen is one of the most visited places in Georgia. Helen's colorful past is recounted in Living on the Unicoi Road and its companion book, The Story of Helen Georgia. From its beginning at a long-abandoned and all-but-forgotten pioneer cemetery, Unicoi Road sets off on a three-centuries-long odyssey through the Helen valley and across much of North Georgia. The region was the wild domain of panthers, Indians, traders, and soldiers for a hundred years until the Unicoi Road was begun in 1813. The next century belonged to the pioneers and gold miners whose story is told in Unicoi Road for the first time. Well illustrated with maps, old photographs and historical documents, Unicoi Road is a virtual front porch where one can sit and watch a long-lost tale of north Georgia s mountaineers unfold. The story does not end there, though, for the author follows the threads of the past to find them still woven into the evolving tapestry of modern life in the beautiful northeast Georgia mountains.